Open Expo Europe Virtual Experience
June 8-11, 2021
Online
https://openexpoeurope.com/es/virtual-experience-2021/

From June 8 to June 11 you could be part of a unique event: Open Expo Virtual Experience.

This initiative arises after the enormous success of our online activities within Innovation, Digital Transformation and Open Source, in which topics such as have been discussed Cybersecurity, Blockchain, IA, Virtual Reality, IoT, Big Data, … In addition to this, the good acceptance that other virtual events such as Red Hat Summit or Open Source Summit North America are having.
At the event you could enjoy more than 50 activities from technology and innovation professionals, with the aim of promoting the ecosystem and generating networking.

OW2 is Event Partner of Open Expo Virtual Experience. 

OW2 has been invited to participate in the event: 

Microsoft Open Source Week
June 7-11, 2021 (mornings)
Online

OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas is speaker in the first morning session on June 7, talking about Open Source in France, the ecosystem, business models and governance. 

All sessions will take place in French. 

To register:  https://aka.ms/OSSWeekFrance

See the slides (PDF, in French) presented by Cédric Thomas.

17th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2021)

OSS 2021 Date and venue

May 12-13, Online.

Visit: www.oss2021.org/

OSS2021 Industry Day

OW2 has been invited to chair the OSS2021 Industrial Track.

The track will include 6 to 8 talks, and will take place on Wednesday May 12th morning (9am-12pm CET, 10am-1pm Finnish time).

Agenda

Keynote Open Source as a Change Agent, Ari Jaaksi, Nokia
1 Open source experiences in AI and DataViz for manufacturing market, Grazia Cazzin, Engineering
2 Building a sustainable and ethical business model on top of Open Source : the case of XWiki, Clément Aubin, XWiki
3 OSS License compliance with the FASTEN project, Michele Scarlato, Endocode
4 The business story of the Melodic project, Konrad Wawruch, 7Bulls.com
5 RIOS (Rete Italiana Open Source): an open source business association, Stefano Pampaloni, RIOS
6 City of Paris: a journey to open source, Philippe Bareille, City of Paris
7 Real world impact on adopting an Open Source software strategy in a global automotive company, Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Erik Lönroth, Scania CV
8 Top 10 challenges of the open source ecosystem, Cédric Thomas, OW2 (video)

Replay of all sessions on Youtube

The playlist of all OSS2021 recordings is available. 

Call for Presentations

The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) aims at providing an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, and the public sector, and diverse FLOSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also a forum to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of FLOSS is being pursued.

The Industry Conference will take place on May 13th afternoon, and include 6 to 8 talks. We are looking for stories telling us about:        

• real life OSS use cases in private or public companies        
• startups successful stories of turning research to businesses        
• best practices and OSS models in public or private sectors        
• any other relevant topic facilitating OSS adoption or related to technology transfer

How to submit: please send your proposal of presentation title, a short abstract and your speaker bio with a photo to the OW2 Management Office (management-office@ow2.org).

Deadline to submit: March 21. CFP is closed

OW2 co-organizes with FASTEN H2020 European project a workshop on "Risk Mitigation with Software Composition Analysis and Dependency Management".

More information, detailed agenda and registration: https://www.fasten-project.eu/view/Events/FASTEN_Virtual_Workshop

[FOR FRENCH MEMBERS ONLY]

Introduction of OW2 Good Governance Initiative, March 26 (in French).

In the framework of the contribution from the French DINUM to the blue hats movement, a workshop series is organized to present user feedback on open source software adoption in public administrations.

https://github.com/blue-hats/ateliers/blob/main/ateliers.org

OW2 will present the OW2 Good Governance Initiative in the BlueHats Workshop Series on March 26 from 11:00 to 11h30.

View the video

Download the slides of the presentation

The slides of the presentation can be found here.

We are happy to announce the second webinar of the Open Research Webinar Series, co-organized by Eclipse and OW2. 

Date: March 4, 2021, from 16:00 to 17:00. 

Agenda:
- 16:00 - 16:15 (CET): Introduction, Cédric Thomas, OW2
- 16:15 - 16:35 (CET): DECODER: a new DevOps toolbox for code exploration and analysis, Virgile Prevosto, CEA
- 16:35 - 16:55 (CET): PDP4E H2020 project, Yod Samuel Martín (UPM) and Antonio Kung (Trialog)
- 16:55 - 17:00 (CET): Wrap up, Philippe Krief, Eclipse Foundation 

Registration: Please register here to attend the March 4 webinar. 

About Open Research Webinars:
Through a selection of state-of-the-art project presentations and demonstrations, this new series of webinars introduces software research projects that help shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. Co-organized by OW2 and the Eclipse Foundation, the webinars will focus on international partners leveraging open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs.

We are happy to participate this year again in FOSDEM with a Devroom and a virtual booth. 

Devroom on Dependency Management

Our Devroom proposal has been accepted again this year! We are coordinating this with the FASTEN research EU project. 

Devroom Date: Sunday February 7 

Dependency Management Devroom on FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/dependency_management/

Devroom Agenda: 

10h - 10h45: FASTEN Intelligent Package Management, Paolo Boldi, Milano University
10h45 - 11h30: DepClean: Automatically revealing bloated software dependencies in Maven projects, César Soto Valero, KTH University, Sweden
11h30 - 12h15: Lost in Zero Space (Can we trust depending on packages with major version zero?), Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
12h15 - 12h45: Early warning signs for open source breakages (Using crowd feedback from dependency automation as an early warning indicator),  Rhys Arkins, Whitesourcesoftware
12h45 - 13h25: As Strong as the Weakest Link (Securing the Software Supply Chain), Brendan O'Leary, GitLab
13h25 - 14h: Reusing dependencies across ecosystems: what stands in the way? Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

OW2 virtual booth

• Join the OW2 virtual booth at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/ow2_welcome/
• FOSDEM Live Streaming
• FOSDEM on Twitter
• FOSDEM Practical guide  
• OW2 introduction (pdf slide deck)
• OW2 Open Source Good Governance Initiative (pdf slide deck)
• OW2 Open Source Good Governance initiative primer (Video, 5:34)
• OW2 Market Readiness Levels (pdf slide deck)
• KnowAge: Advanced Analytics meet Data Visualization (pdf slide deck)
• DECODER: a toolbox for exploring, understanding and verifying software (pdf slide deck)
• ZenRoom Crypto Tool  (pdf slide deck)

Project Press Releases

• FASTEN Project at FOSDEM 2021 Release
• ReachOut Project at FOSDEM 2021 Release

Follow-up

• FOSDEM 2021 follow-up

OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas co-sign op-ed in Le Monde with Stefane Fermigier and Prof. Roberto Di Cosmo in support of MP Eric Bothorel's recommendation to set up a specialized open source bureau for the French administration. 

English translation of the pre-print version of op-ed published in Le Monde on January 17, 2021
Check out the French text with list of all co-signatories here.
This version published under CC-BY-ND 4.0 Creative Commons licence. 

A digital sovereignty issue, open source software warrants a real public strategy.

On January 1, 2022, with the presidential election campaign in full swing, and as the country takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months, France will be keen to foster cooperation between the member states. Each minister will be expected to set out their own ambitious programmes. To be in tune with history, France will have to promote cooperation between member states in the digital field and rise to the challenges by placing the values of openness, transparency, inclusiveness and autonomy in open source software at the heart of its digital strategy. To achieve this, we are calling for the creation within the government administration of a "free software bureau" reporting to the Prime Minister and with the necessary resources and drive to engage with the free software ecosystem, its communities and companies. In this, we support one of the strong recommendations in Member of Parliament Eric Bothorel’s report relative to public policy on data, algorithms and source codes made public on December 23, 2020.

Free software (also known as open source software, i.e. covered by licenses guaranteeing the rights to use, study, modify and redistribute it freely) and open data are two major challenges of the modern digital world public administrations are becoming increasingly aware of. In November 2020, the European Commission published its strategy for Open Source software. It clearly emphasizes openness as a driver of innovation, digital autonomy and respect for citizens and users. The Commission notes that open source enables entire organizations to easily "connect seamlessly across organizational silos and borders" to improve the efficiency of their processes. For the Commission, the effects of the open source paradigm go beyond software to "define a vision for fostering and harnessing the transformative, innovative and collaborative power of open source, its principles and development practices". More recently, in December 2020, the European Council called in its Berlin Declaration to "promote the development, sharing and reuse of open source standards, solutions and specifications across borders". Finally, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s appointing of open source specialist David Recordon to Chief Technology Officer at the White House is another sign of the interest that Open Source software represents for public administrations.

In terms of digital sovereignty, the key role of Open Source software as a means to regain economic independence from non-EU players and safeguard skilled jobs within the Union is widely recognized. Already in 2018, the General Secretariat for Defense and National Security (SGDSN) recommended "an industrial strategy based on open source, [which,] provided it is part of a well-considered commercial approach, can enable French and European manufacturers to gain market share where they are currently absent, and thereby enable France and the European Union to regain sovereignty". In November 2020, the European Commission pointed out that "the open source model has an impact on Europe's digital autonomy. It will probably give Europe a chance to create and maintain its own independent digital approach to the digital giants in the cloud and allow it to keep control of its processes, information and technology." In this context, by also rightly observing that free software and open data are major enablers of innovation, digital sovereignty and the transformation of public action, the Bothorel report marks a crucial milestone for the French administration.

France’s government has everything to gain by giving itself the means to implement a determined policy of digital openness, especially since the country has no shortage of assets, so much so that is recognized as a European leader in the use of Open Source technologies. With hundreds of SMEs, a number major companies and recognized associations representing more than 50,000 jobs, a dynamic industry has developed over the last 20 years to meet the needs of businesses and public administrations. But there is more. The government’s policy on Open Source software is itself already enshrined in law. Article 16 of the Digital Republic Act put forward by Axelle Lemaire in 2016 requires that "[the administrations concerned] encourage the use of free software and open formats when developing, purchasing or using all or part of [their] information systems," to "preserve their control, durability and independence."

The Bothorel report goes further, calling on us to enforce this legislative framework by creating a lean and transversal administrative entity specialized in open source. In this sense, alignment with the vision, strategy and pillars for action of the European Commission, currently setting up its own open source program office, would come at the right time. With less than a year to go before the rotating presidency of the European Union, it is urgent that France should give itself the resources it needs to secure the experience, maturity and legitimacy required in the digital arena to be in a position to incorporate into the institutional landscape a strong policy in favor of Open Source that other countries will expect of it, and whose absence would penalise our ecosystem.

Signed by:
    • Roberto Di Cosmo, Director Software Heritage, Professor of Software Engineering, Inria and Université de Paris
    • Stefane Fermigier, Free Software entrepreneur, Co-President CNLL (Conseil National du Logiciel Libre)
    • Cedric Thomas, Economist, CEO OW2 Open Source Organisation 

Co-signed by:
    • Updated listist of all endorses here.

The OW2 community supports the recommendation of the French Parliamentary mission to set up a central open source competency center and offers to help by sharing its expertise.

Paris, January 11, 2021  - OW2, the international community dedicated to developing and promoting a code base of open source software for corporate information systems, announces its support of the conclusions and recommendations of the French parliamentary mission led by MP Eric Bothorel on open data and open source software.

OW2 congratulates the Bothorel mission for its work. The Mission recognizes open data and open source software as strategic to public administration information systems in bringing transparency, sovereignty and quality to Public Services. It affirms the Government Administration’s crucial role in creating digital commons for the benefit of sectors of society. 

Most importantly, the report recommends setting up a cross-administration open source competency center dedicated to helping government administrations to publish and reuse open source code, identify the challenges of mutualization, engage with open source communities and foster talents in this field.

“We applaud the recommendations of the report” says OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas. “The Parliament’s job done, we are willing to help the central administrations to turn them into action,” he adds.

Representing dozens of open source companies and projects, OW2 is an expression of the European open source ecosystem. Welcoming the recommendations of the Bothorel mission the OW2 community offers to support them by sharing its expertise in two areas:  

    • The first one concerns governance. OW2 proposes to share its set of generally accepted best practices from OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative to help build common reference and progress monitoring system across central administrations.
    • The second one concerns OW2’s methodology to evaluate the Market Readiness Levels of open source projects so as to help manage the catalogue of open source software deployed by public administrations.

The 216 pages report of the Bothorel mission was published on December 23, 2020. It contains 37 recommendations on open data and on free software in the French public administration, presented as “strategic components of our information systems”. 

About OW2
OW2 is an independent community dedicated to promoting open source software and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. OW2 federates 100+ organizations and 6000+ IT professionals world wide. OW2 hosts 100+ technology Projects, including: ADR App, ASM, AuthzForce, CLIF, DocDoku, FusionDirectory, GLPI, JORAM, Knowage, LemonLDAP:NG, Lutece, OCS Inventory, Petals ESB, Prelude, ProActive, Rocket.Chat, SAT4J, SeedStack, Sympa, Telosys, Waarp, WebLab and XWiki. Visit www.ow2.org, follow us on Twitter @ow2.

Contact
OW2  Management Office
Press: Catherine Nuel
Tel:  +33 6 77795915
catherine.nuel@ow2.org

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The OW2 community supports the recommendation of the French Parliamentary mission to set up a central open source competency center and offers to help by sharing its expertise.

Paris, January 11, 2021  - OW2, the international community dedicated to developing and promoting a code base of open source software for corporate information systems, announces its support of the conclusions and recommendations of the French parliamentary mission led by MP Eric Bothorel on open data and open source software.

OW2 congratulates the Bothorel mission for its work. The Mission recognizes open data and open source software as strategic to public administration information systems in bringing transparency, sovereignty and quality to Public Services. It affirms the Government Administration’s crucial role in creating digital commons for the benefit of sectors of society. 

Most importantly, the report recommends setting up a cross-administration open source competency center dedicated to helping government administrations to publish and reuse open source code, identify the challenges of mutualization, engage with open source communities and foster talents in this field.

“We applaud the recommendations of the report” says OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas. “The Parliament’s job done, we are willing to help the central administrations to turn them into action,” he adds.

Representing dozens of open source companies and projects, OW2 is an expression of the European open source ecosystem. Welcoming the recommendations of the Bothorel mission the OW2 community offers to support them by sharing its expertise in two areas:  

    • The first one concerns governance. OW2 proposes to share its set of generally accepted best practices from OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative to help build common reference and progress monitoring system across central administrations.
    • The second one concerns OW2’s methodology to evaluate the Market Readiness Levels of open source projects so as to help manage the catalogue of open source software deployed by public administrations.

The 216 pages report of the Bothorel mission was published on December 23, 2020. It contains 37 recommendations on open data and on free software in the French public administration, presented as “strategic components of our information systems”. 

About OW2
OW2 is an independent community dedicated to promoting open source software and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. OW2 federates 100+ organizations and 6000+ IT professionals world wide. OW2 hosts 100+ technology Projects, including: ADR App, ASM, AuthzForce, CLIF, DocDoku, FusionDirectory, GLPI, JORAM, Knowage, LemonLDAP:NG, Lutece, OCS Inventory, Petals ESB, Prelude, ProActive, Rocket.Chat, SAT4J, SeedStack, Sympa, Telosys, Waarp, WebLab and XWiki. Visit www.ow2.org, follow us on Twitter @ow2.

Contact
OW2  Management Office
Press: Catherine Nuel
Tel:  +33 6 77795915
catherine.nuel@ow2.org

Download the PDF: version in English, version in French